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Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail
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I still can't believe Sony is still in business. Who's dumb enough to keep buying stuff from a company that booby-trapped their own CDs?
If you read the article, they are no longer in the business of selling theatre projection equipment.
This was probably an expired certificate. Alamo Drafthouse, like many movie theatres, probably cuts costs by not having a projectionist and lets the projectors essentially run on auto pilot, and then faced the consequences when no one noticed that their certificates had expired.
Sorry to be unclear, I meant in general - so because they booby trapped their CDs, nobody should buy their anything, not just CDs and projectors.
Isnt Sony still the golden standard for tvs?
Not so much with OLED being a thing. They do make OLED TVs now, but they're just buying LG panels, so it comes down to is their image processing worth twice as much for the same screen.
Their industrial design is still top-tier throughout their portfolio though.
I'm still blaming the assholes who put timebomb DRM in the movies in the first place.
Yeah it's crazy to think that a company like Sony makes more than just music.
Also interesting that Sony makes more money selling insurance and banking in Japan than they do with their music globally.
They're pushing the boundaries on where to put malware!
Sorry but the booby-trapped their CDs? Could you explain further? I was not able to find out what you meant with a quick google search.
Back in the mid 00's their CDs had a rootkit on them that installed software to interfere with CD Copying apparently also some of them phoned home with your listening habits. Stuff was hard if not impossible to remove, used system resources, crashed computers and was a security hole, just plain shity
Thx a lot!
Holy shit thats dystopian shit.
IIRC, it became widely known that Sony was doing this after malware exploiting it became widespread enough to be noticed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
Thx a lot!
Holy shit thats dystopian.
They are talking about the Sony BMG rootkit.
Because it's the result of their disrespect for you, the customer.
CONSUME
I enjoy typing "COMSUME" at consumers.
You yell that at literally every person you meet, because that basically includes every single person? You yell it in the mirror?
Lol. Imagine buying a mirror.
Ha! Very good.
Here you go, for what it's worth I've had tons of fun with competing products since then.
We don't need anything they sell; boycotting them for 20 years has cost me neither money nor time. Direct action > voting.
How are you estimating impact? In case you're one of today's "lucky" 10,000
The direct action to which I'm referring is the boycott, not either of us discussing our choices online.
Bernie is a great example of this issue - we seemingly get really close to lots of wonderful things, only for them to be shot down at the last minute. The Princeton study suggests that this is a deliberate method of control.
Those fat BETAMAX royalty checks?